Twelve former Gestapo officers and men charged with murdering a large number of Hungarian Jewish slave laborers and American prisoners of war in 1946 will go on trial before an American military tribunal in Salzburg April 19, it was announced here today.
The Gestapo men murdered their prisoners on Easter Sunday when their unit was ordered to evacuate the concentration camp before it was overrun by the advancing allied armies.
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